1GROLBP(1) General Commands Manual GROLBP(1)
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6 grolbp - groff driver for Canon CAPSL printers (LBP-4 and LBP-8 series
7 laser printers).
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10 grolbp [ -l ] [ --landscape ] [ -v ] [ --version ] [ -cn ]
11 [ --copies=numcopies ] [ -ppaper_size ]
12 [ --papersize=paper_size ] [ -oorientation ]
13 [ --orientation=orientation ] [ -wwidth ] [ --linewidth=width ]
14 [ -Fdir ] [ --fontdir=dir ] [ -h ] [ --help ] [ files... ]
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17 grolbp is a driver for groff that produces output in CAPSL and VDM for‐
18 mat suitable for Canon LBP-4 and LBP-8 printers.
19 For compatibility with grolj4 there is an additional drawing command
21 available:
22 \D'R dh dv'
24 Draw a rule (i.e. a solid black rectangle), with one corner at
25 the current position, and the diagonally opposite corner at the
26 current position +(dh,dv).
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29 Note that there can be whitespace between a one-letter option and its
30 argument; on the other hand, there must be whitespace and/or an equal
31 sign (‘=’) between a long-name option and its argument.
32 -cnumcopies
34 --copies=numcopies
35 Print numcopies copies of each page.
36 -l
38 --landscape
39 Print the document with a landscape orientation.
40 -ppaper_size
42 --papersize=paper_size
43 Set the paper size to paper_size, which must be a valid paper
44 size description as indicated in the section PAPER SIZES.
45 -oorientation
47 --orientation=orientation
48 Print the document with orientation orientation, which must be
49 ‘portrait’ or ‘landscape’.
50 -wwidth
52 --linewidth=width
53 Set the default line thickness to width thousandths of an em.
54 If this option isn't specified, the line thickness defaults to
55 0.04 em.
56 -v
58 --version
59 Print the version number.
60 -Fdir
62 --fontdir=dir
63 Prepend directory dir/devname to the search path for font and
64 device description files; name is the name of the device, usual‐
65 ly lbp.
66 -h
68 --help Print a short help text.
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71 The driver supports the Dutch, Swiss and Swiss-Narrow scalable type‐
72 faces, each one in the Regular, Bold, Italic and Bold-Italic styles.
73 Additionally, the Courier and Elite monospaced typefaces at the sizes 8
74 and 12 points (for Courier) resp. 8 and 10 points (for Elite) are sup‐
75 ported, each one in the Regular, Bold and Italic styles.
76 The following chart summarizes the font names you can use to access
78 these fonts:
79 ┌────────────────┬───────────┬────────┬──────────┬──────────────┐
81 │ Typeface │ Regular │ Bold │ Italic │ Bold-Italic │
82 ├────────────────┼───────────┼────────┼──────────┼──────────────┤
83 │ Dutch │ TR │ TB │ TI │ TBI │
84 ├────────────────┼───────────┼────────┼──────────┼──────────────┤
85 │ Swiss │ HR │ HB │ HI │ HBI │
86 ├────────────────┼───────────┼────────┼──────────┼──────────────┤
87 │ Swiss Narrow │ HNR │ HNB │ HNI │ HNBI │
88 ├────────────────┼───────────┼────────┼──────────┼──────────────┤
89 │ Courier │ CR │ CB │ CI │ │
90 ├────────────────┼───────────┼────────┼──────────┼──────────────┤
91 │ Elite │ ER │ EB │ EI │ │
92 └────────────────┴───────────┴────────┴──────────┴──────────────┘
94 The paper size can be set in the DESC file or with command line options
95 to grolbp. If the paper size is specified both ways, the command line
96 options take precedence over the contents of the DESC file (this ap‐
97 plies to the page orientation too).
98 See groff_font(5) how to set the paper dimensions in the DESC file.
100 To set the paper size in the command line, add
102 -p paper-size
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106 --papersize=paper-size
108 to the other grolbp options, where paper-size is in the same format as
110 in the DESC file.
111 If no paper size is specified in the DESC file or the command line, a
113 default size of A4 is used.
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116 As with the page size, the orientation of the printed page (portrait or
117 landscape) can be set in the DESC file or with command line options.
118 It is also case insensitive.
119 To set the orientation in the DESC file, insert a line with the follow‐
121 ing content:
122 orientation [portrait|landscape]
124 Only the first valid orientation command in the DESC file is used.
126 To set the page orientation with command line options you can use the
128 -o or --orientation option with the same parameters (portrait or land‐
129 scape) as in the DESC file. Or you can use the -l option to force the
130 pages to be printed in landscape.
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133 In addition to the usual commands described in groff_font(5), grolbp
134 provides the command lbpname which sets the font name sent to the
135 printer when requesting this font. The syntax of this command is:
136 lbpname printer_font_name
138 · For bitmapped fonts, printer_font_name has the form
140 N⟨base_fontname⟩⟨font_style⟩
142 base_fontname is the font name as it appears in the printers
144 font listings without the first letter, up to (but not includ‐
145 ing) the font size. font_style can be one of the letters R, I,
146 or B, indicating the font styles Roman, Italic and Bold respec‐
147 tively.
148 For instance, if the printer's font listing A shows font
150 ‘Nelite12I.ISO_USA’, the corresponding entry in the font de‐
151 scription file is
152 lbpname NeliteI
154 Note that you may need to modify grolbp to add support for new
156 bitmapped fonts, since the available font names and font sizes
157 of bitmapped fonts (as documented above) are hard-coded into the
158 program.
159 · For scalable fonts, printer_font_name is identical to the font
161 name as it appears in the printer's font listing A.
162 For instance, to select the ‘Swiss’ font in bold style, which
164 appears in the printer's font listing A as ‘Swiss-Bold’, the re‐
165 quired lbpname command line is
166 lbpname Swiss-Bold
168 The argument of lbpname is case sensitive.
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173 GROFF_FONT_PATH
174 A list of directories in which to search for the devname direc‐
175 tory in addition to the default ones. See troff(1) and
176 groff_font(5) for more details.
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179 /usr/share/groff/1.22.3/font/devlbp/DESC
180 Device description file.
181 /usr/share/groff/1.22.3/font/devlbp/F
183 Font description file for font F.
184 /usr/share/groff/1.22.3/tmac/lbp.tmac
186 Macros for use with grolbp.
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189 groff(1), troff(1), groff_out(5), groff_font(5), groff_char(7)
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192 Copyright © 1994-2014 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
193 Permission is granted to make and distribute verbatim copies of this
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197 Permission is granted to copy and distribute modified versions of this
199 manual under the conditions for verbatim copying, provided that the en‐
200 tire resulting derived work is distributed under the terms of a permis‐
201 sion notice identical to this one.
202 Permission is granted to copy and distribute translations of this manu‐
204 al into another language, under the above conditions for modified ver‐
205 sions, except that this permission notice may be included in transla‐
206 tions approved by the Free Software Foundation instead of in the origi‐
207 nal English.
208 Modified by Francisco Andrés Verdú <pandres@dragonet.es> for the grolbp
210 program.
211Groff Version 1.22.3 29 January 2020 GROLBP(1)